{"id":10966,"date":"2025-12-03T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10966"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:54:24","slug":"bird-flu-hits-18000-turkeys-in-north-central-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/bird-flu-hits-18000-turkeys-in-north-central-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu hits 18,000 turkeys in north central Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/agriculture\/2025\/12\/03\/bird-flu-hits-central-iowa-18000-turkeys\/87573709007\/\">Des Moines Register<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bird flu has struck a commercial turkey operation with 18,000 birds in north central Iowa\u2019s Hamilton County, the Iowa Department of Agriculture says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbreak reported Tuesday, Dec. 2, is the first in Iowa since October, when highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/money\/agriculture\/2025\/10\/02\/bird-flu-northwest-iowa-flock-42000-turkeys-destroyed\/86477015007\/\">at a Calhoun County turkey operation with 42,000 birds<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This outbreak brings Iowa\u2019s total to nine for the year, U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows. Flocks in which the deadly disease is detected are destroyed to prevent it from spreading. Since the current wave of bird flu began in February 2022, Iowa poultry producers and families with backyard flocks have lost nearly 30.7 million turkeys, chickens, ducks and other birds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des Moines Register Bird flu has struck a commercial turkey operation with 18,000 birds in north central Iowa\u2019s Hamilton County, the Iowa Department of Agriculture says. The outbreak reported Tuesday, Dec. 2, is the first in Iowa since October, when highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected&nbsp;at a Calhoun County turkey operation with 42,000 birds. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10967,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions\/10967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}